Equality Charter Project Manager

Full Time Permanent

Closing Date: Monday 06 February 2023

Interview Date: To be confirmed

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, dynamic Project Manager to manage and coordinate the successful delivery of our equality charters. The role will maximise stakeholder engagement opportunities and ensure the implementation of action plans and an efficient, timely submission to the evaluating bodies.

You will be a welcomed member of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team. You will work in partnership with key stakeholders from across the University to lead the planning and delivery of specified projects. This will include developing and monitoring action plans, reporting and ensuring appropriate risk and issue management processes are embedded. A primary focus will be to ensure that required Charter outputs are produced to a high standard, in collaboration with staff and students across the university.

About you

You will have excellent communication skills, the ability to plan and manage your own workload and an interest for working within an organisation passionate about equality and inclusion. You will be a positive and proactive problem solver and able to manage often-conflicting priorities at the same time. You will be a strong team player, professional, clear thinking under pressure and be dynamic in your approach. Your ability to engage with stakeholders and maintain relationships across the projects will be essential. You will have a skill level equivalent to achievement of HND, Degree, NVQ4 or basic professional qualification. Proven project management skills to include knowledge and experience of project management techniques and tools. A PRINCE2 Practitioner or traditional project management qualification is desirable but not essential.

What we can offer you

Working at the University of Southampton gives you access to a wide range of benefits in addition to our competitive rates of pay. 

 We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• a total of 44 days leave per year (comprising of annual leave, bank holidays and University Closure days)
• options for flexible working, excellent family leave arrangements (including maternity, paternity, adoption, parental and carers leave)
• a wide variety of on and off-campus arts and culture facilities
• access to a range of staff discounts and offers at local shops, restaurants and service providers, including the cycle to work scheme.

All our benefits can be viewed here: Benefits explained | Human Resources | University of Southampton .

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment. 

Committed to supporting our staff and students, we give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly and those who have taken a career break.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Becky O’Selmo, Equality Programme Manager via email R.E.Oselmo@soton.ac.uk 

Interviews will be held week commencing 27th February. 

Application Procedure

You should submit your completed online application form at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk.

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